Shamshad Begum

Shamshad Begum was an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry. Notable for her distinctive voice and range, she sang over 6,000 songs in Hindustani, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, and Punjabi languages, among which 1287 were Hindi film songs. She worked with renowned composers of the time, such as Naushad Ali and O. P. Nayyar, for whom she was one of their favorites. Her songs from the 1940s to the early 1970s remain popular and continue to be remixed.

14 April 1919

Born on the same birth date (14 April 1919): K. Saraswathi Amma

Born on the same birth day (14 April): Barrett Martin • Efi Arazi • Joseph Ruskin • Nadine Faustin-Parker • Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom • Péter Esterházy • Ross Filipo • Valerie Hobson • Wilson Kiprop

Born in the same month (April 1919): Alberto Breccia • Chavela Vargas • Esther Afua Ocloo • Gilles Lamontagne • Ian Smith • István Anhalt • Joseph Murray • Licio Gelli • Oleg Penkovsky • Raymond Carr